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What has the Gamecc
Enforcement Division in
In November 1977, the
of football fans to Haw*
year. Shortly, afterward
based agency, filed suit
ward Pitts, alleging brea
The travel group ch
agreement to use their gi
Even before the legal ;
suit against the Mid-Am<
Gamecock Club, chargir
regulations. Mid-Americ
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jurist* ici v^uui i in /\rKanss
If the allegations are ti
spent on the venture won
freshmen accounting ma
legal hassles they have ei
With the Gamecock Cli
is frightening to think CA
have been overlooked. V
organization?
The club has been in
numerous SLED investig
This summer, a club emp
around $4,000 in funds. It
staff member was the o
vestigation itself was bi
found to be missing.
The most amazing aspe
by local media in provid
involved have been extr
formation, and silence tei
the media.
A full disclosure of (
warranted. The public she
the handling of around J
organization. Let's stop
money.
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his word in the oral agree
the case, USC's reputat
Computer scandals and S
either becoming too big o
of its various organization
Why has the university l
the state informed of the
prefers to ignore, rather
many dark days are in sto:
Aggressit
behavior
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It must have come as a
Cooper Library to discos
were really peepholes
homosexuals, to spy on j
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%m?v?i?u tnuuv na?v
However, they finally r
Remove the doors. Unf<
complished is to provide a
WITH THE RECENT spa
to students in rest rooms
situation is no longer a
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threat of being molested
reason anyone should.
Given their own precede
current, more serious pr
Obviously, like removing i
The solution does not li
problem, nor adopting the
mind. What is required
pearances, a confrontatio
and propositioning them.
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i ne saaaesi pari ot todf
gay man (no names, pleas
no way he could express hi
go and be himself and mee
WHETHER WE AGR
irrelevant ? he or she has
the right, but our campus s
do they go? Today's storv t
Until people accept hom
part of life and attach no :
incidents. Do we bury our I
what they feel they need to 1
Maybe when that matu
return the toilet doors.
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Is disclosure
ick Club dnnp ?nri u;hu ic fhp Qtato T n\xj
terested in them?
t Gamecock Club took a chartered group
lii for the Gamecock's last game of the
, International Travel Group, a Raleigh
against the club and its secretary, Edch
of contract.
arged that Pitts reneged on an oral
-oup for booking purposes.
action, the Civil Aeronautics Board filed
jrican Travel Service as an agent for the
ig the group with violation of monetary
an agreed to a consent order in Federal
is.
rue, it is apparent that records of money
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jor could have helped the club avoid the
icountered.
jb handling millions of dollars yearly, it
B regulations and financial technicalities
Vho does hold the nurse strings fnr th#?
hot water for some time now, with
Rations into the handling of club funds,
loyee was indicted for embezzelment of
seems very strange a Gamecock Club
nly person indicted. After all, the inigun
after approximately $19,000 was
ct of the story is the relative ignorance
ing coverage of the story. All sources
emely hesistant in releasing any inlds
to arouse suspicion, or should, from
gamecock Club financial dealings is
>uld be make aware of what goes on with
Vi million a year by the local booster
playing around with mass sums of
me, the travel group claims Pitts broke
ment to charter the trip. If this is indeed
ion has suffered yet another setback.
1LED investigations suggest that USC is
r too negligent to coordinate the affairs
is.
failed to keep the students and people of
situation? It seems the administration
than explain. If this trend continues,
re for USC.
>e homosexual
has no place
s life, buildings
i shock to administrators of the Thomas
/er the holes in their toilet stall doors
enabling certain people, presumably
students urinating. The solution to this
I the officials for a long time.
eached an unusual and unique decision:
^rturately all this seems to have acbetter
view.
ite of indecent homosexual propositions
\ of Russell House and the library, the
joke. Harrassment seldom is; so are
ng saie wnen mey use the toilets. The
is not easy to live with, and there is no
?nt, the administrators resolution to this
oblem would be to remove the toilets,
the dooi*s, it is no real answer,
e in treating only the symptoms of the
; ostrich syndrome ? out of sight, out of
i? a ueeper iook Denina outward apn
of why gays are approaching students
ly's sad story was the comments of the
;e) who, it was apparent, felt there was
is feelings. There was no place he could
t other neonle who shnrost hie lifootnio
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EE with his sexual persuasion is
the right to be as they are. They have
wciety has no place for them. So where
old of one outlet for them.
losexuality, both male and female, as
stigma on it, there will be unpleasant
leads in the sand or do we let people be
be.
rity arrives the administrators will
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To the Editor: b?
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I am very angry. Since last year, S<
I have planned on traveling to
Chapel Hill to see the Gamecocks nc
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University of North Carolina. a
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The trip had special meaning for p<
me, since I have friends in the
Chapel Hill area whom I planned to G
visit for the weekend of Sept. 8. In to
addition, the rivalry between the s<
Carolinas has always been fierce, is
and I was eager to see the last di
USC-UNC game of my college d<
career.
Since coach Carlen has g
repeatedly stressed the im- 0
j portance of this opening game to f<
the success of the season, I'm sure c
many other student football fans tl
felt the same way I do. d
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When I made what I thought was a
an early call to the ticket office on s'
August 14, 1 was informed that no a
tickets would be sold in Columbia
for the game. I seems that all 8000 a
or so seats have been claimed by ti
advance ticket requests from si
Gamecock Club members. 11
The secretary in the ticket office e
told me that club members get the si
first ? and in this case the only ? i si
crack at tickets for away games. I v,
This means that, except for the ; ti
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The blame for this situation does
it rest with UNC. An allotment of
00 tickets to the visiting school is
generous one. The blame lies
ith the typically asinine ticket
>licy of this university.
We saw it last year with the
eorgia football and Kentucky
isketball games, and we are
ieing it again now. The plain fact
that, on the university's list of
riorities, student interests rank
sad last.
I do not quarrel with the policy of
iving Gamecock Club members
tie first shot at tickets for away
Dot ball games. Club members
ontribute necessary money for
fie operation of the athletic
epartment. They are important to
ie continued financial stability of
thletics at Carolina. Most of the
tudents cannot afford to travel far
way very often anyway.
However, there is no reason why
limitation on Gamecock Club
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tituted in cases like this. If even
OOO of the UNO tickets, for
xample, were reserved for
tudent purchase, it would be a
tep in the right direction. And it
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cket allotment.
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fc Club requests
This is not very much to ask. But
it will not happen. Why? Because
nobody really gives a damn about
the students at this university.
It shows in the fee increase
decision, the general attitude of the
administration and the distribution
of tickets to athletic events.
Students alwavs finish last
By the way, if you were planning
on traveling to Athens to see the
Georgia game, forget it. Those
tickets are also gone.
On the football field this year,
things should finally be different
from the past few years. But in the
university itself, including the
athletic ticket office, it will be the
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same oia song ana aance.
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